Iraq woke up yesterday to a new day of civil disobedience across the country, especially in the capital, where security forces re-used live bullets to disperse demonstrators demanding to "overthrow the regime" on the fourteenth day of the second wave of protests, and later issued official orders not to The use of live ammunition against the demonstrators, and while several political sources close to the decision circles that «Iran is not satisfied with the role of (President) Barham Saleh in the current crisis, where he gave up those who brought him to the presidency (Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi) at the first crossroads», he drew Many officials pointed out that Abdul Mahdi himself, too Bh besieged and isolated, and that decision-making powers and a team of his advisers are under increasing pressure from Iran.
Internet access in Baghdad and most of the provinces has been completely cut off since Monday night, amid fears among protesters that they might try to isolate them again to strike the first wave of unprecedented violence.
The protests, which began on October 1, last year, bloody violence that killed about 280 people, according to a census of "AFP", at a time when authorities refrain from publishing an official toll for a week.
The first wave of protests between the first and the sixth of October was characterized by the presence of snipers on the roofs of buildings targeting the demonstrators, but their identity is still unknown to the Authority.
The protests began to widen in the capital since Tuesday night, with demonstrators apparently seeking to disperse the concentration of security forces that fired live bullets yesterday, injuring protesters trying to cross a fourth bridge.
"Riot police beat us with batons on our heads and clashed with them with stones," said a 20-year-old protester, as medics tried to treat him from an injury to the Martyrs Bridge. "But they started throwing live at the citizens."
After closing the al-Jumhuriya bridge leading to the Green Zone, which houses government buildings, foreign embassies, and al-Senak and al-Ahrar bridges, protesters seek to include the Martyrs Bridge as a hit-and-run game with security forces.
Protesters assert that bridging operations are part of the declared civil disobedience and to protect all roads leading to demonstrators in Tahrir Square, which are still gathering during the day.
Several security sources told Agence France Presse that kidnappings of some protesters continued as they returned from the demonstration, apparently in an attempt to spread terror and dry the street. The Internet is also having a negative impact on protesters.
"Blocking the Internet warns that there will be blood," a government official said.
Authorities cut off the Internet for two weeks last month, tightening the noose on social networks, which are still blocked until now, except through the use of applications «VPN».
"This new piece is the worst restriction imposed by the Iraqi government since the beginning of the demonstrations," said NetBlocs.
To the south of the capital, government departments and schools in the cities of Nasiriyah, Kut, Hilla, Najaf and Diwaniyah continued to be completely closed.
The demonstrators, the night before last, to burn the homes of deputies and local officials in the district of Shatrah north of the city of Nasiriyah, according to security sources.
Protesters also shut down the Dhi Qar oil company yesterday and prevented employees from reaching the company's headquarters, according to the same source.
In Diwaniya, demonstrators shut down the Shinafiyah oil refinery.
In Basra, the port of Umm Qasr, one of the main outlets for the import of food and medicine, is still closed for the continued gathering of demonstrators blocking the road leading to the port, which cost the country losses of more than six billion dollars.
On the political side, things seem to be frozen, especially with the announcement of Adel Abdul-Mahdi, the day before yesterday, that the solutions presented so far are not sufficient purpose, especially the issue of holding early parliamentary elections.
The election issue was proposed by President Barham Salih, who is conducting political consultations with senior leaders in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
So far, it is clear that Abdul Mahdi and Saleh are in a state of estrangement, an Iraqi official told AFP, considering the former as his ally abandoned.
The anger of the demonstrators demanding the "overthrow of the regime" in the past few days focused on Iran, which has a large influence in Iraq, as well as the United States, which did not mention the protesters during the demonstrations, which in turn did not react to the current crisis in the country.